sundew

English

Drosera tokaiensis, a species of sundew

Etymology

From sun +‎ dew. Cognate with Dutch zonnedauw, Icelandic sóldögg, German Sonnentau.

Noun

sundew (plural sundews)

1. Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.

Derived terms

• Cape sundew
• forked sundew
• fork-leaved sundew
• showy sundew

 

Translations

group of insectivorous plants

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: рося́нка f (rosjánka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛氈苔／毛毡苔 (zh) (máozhāntái)

• Danish: soldug
• Dutch: zonnedauw (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: sóldøgg f
• Finnish: kihokki (fi)
• French: droséra (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sonnentau (de) m
• Greek: δροσέρα (el) f (droséra)
• Hawaiian: mikinalo
• Icelandic: sóldögg (is) f
• Italian: rosolida f
• Japanese: 毛氈苔 (モウセンゴケ, mōsengoke), サンデュー (sandyū)
• Malagasy: kimatanandro, mahatanando (mg)
• Maori: wahu
• Norwegian: soldogg
• Polish: rosiczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: drósera f
• Romanian: roua-cerului (ro) f, roua-soarelui f
• Russian: рося́нка (ru) f (rosjánka)
• Spanish: rocío del sol
• Swedish: sileshår (sv)
• Thai: หยาดน้ำค้าง (yàat-nám-káang)
• Vietnamese: gọng vó (vi)

Further reading

• sundew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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